Steam games that force players to watch advertisements are banned, Valve emphasises
www.eurogamer.net
Valve has emphasised its rules around advertising, explicitly prohibiting games that force players to watch in-game ads.
  • Meldrik@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    121·
    13 days ago

    They should do the same on the Play and App Store.

    There’s even games where you can pay to remove ads, but it will still ask you if you wanna watch an ad to get a bonus or some shit. Fuck that.

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
      91·
      13 days ago

      They should do the same on the Play and App Store.

      95% of “games” removed

      • Meldrik@lemmy.wtfEnglish
        251·
        13 days ago

        At least 95% of them are shit anyway 😂

        I really enjoy Apple Arcade. Quality games for the kids with no ads or micro transactions.

    • ShadowRam@fedia.io
      29·
      13 days ago

      This is exactly why I don’t play games on mobile.

      I absolutely don’t have the time to wade through that shit.

      about a year ago, I was like, “It’d be nice to have a few mindless games on my phone”… tried like four… just ADS ADS ADS…

      Even the ones where I liked the game, and wanted to just remove the ad bullshit for a price… nothing…

      • Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        20·
        13 days ago

        Loop hero

        Vampire Survivors base game is free and has the option of watching and ad for a free revive (which you don’t get at all on other platforms)

        Slay the spire

        Balatro

        Plenty of great games without ads

      • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        13 days ago

        GooglePlay search favors popular trash, but there and on F-Droid you can still find some fun ones without ads. Searching from outside, like on a regular web search engine or lemmy\reddit subs for free games may help. I don’t mind piracy but I was glad to obtain Antimine and Mindustry. Also, there are ways to block internet or patch apps, but they usually imply you have root and may break things if not careful.

        Idk about iPhone apps, but I’m sure the first solution would work too and the second means jailbreaking thus cutting off most of their praised ecosystem.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        13 days ago

        On my phone, I have two games:

        • PySolFC - FOSS collection of a bunch of solitaire-like games, with varying levels of attention required
        • Lichess - FOSS chess game, with puzzles, bots, and MP

        The first is available on F-Droid, not sure about other stores, and the second is probably available everywhere (I got it on Google Play).

        I, too, got tired of sifting through ad-riddled BS and just didn’t play games on my phone for years.

      • Anivia@feddit.orgEnglish
        4·
        13 days ago

        Yeah, there is a tiny amount of good mobile games, like oceanhorn or world of goo. You’re better off just sticking to emulating console games on mobile, than playing native mobile games

    • RogueBanana@lemmy.zipEnglish
      12·
      13 days ago

      The difference is that google directly gets money from those ads. Not sure if apple also uses the same ad system but I would assume it is.

      • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        12 days ago

        Totally don’t care for mobile games, but this, for sure, is one very helpful resource to comb through this pile of rabble.

    • Jericho_Kane@lemmy.orgEnglish
      3·
      12 days ago

      I feel like spotify does a similar thing. Even if you have premium, sometimes i just get random ads and it’s like oh no what a glitch in the system.

    • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
      63·
      12 days ago

      I don’t mind the fact that apps on Android show ads. I mind the terrible inconsistency of those ads. Some have an X button at the top left, some at the top right. I’ve seen “mute” buttons in at least three different quadrants, plus some are within a small landscape window rather than taking up the full portrait-held phone. And some don’t have mute at all.

      And then some have a fake-out X button that actually clicks on the ad if you try to use it.

      And a couple of times I’ve gotten an ad that I literally couldn’t exit. Had to force quit the app to get back to it.

      If the ads were a consistent experience, I would have a much less intensely negative opinion of them.